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The 2018 law criminalizes websites that "promote or facilitate" prostitution. Two of three judges on the panel pushed back against government claims that this doesn't criminalize speech.
City officials in Nederland, Texas, are kicking around the idea of limiting new massage parlors to industrial areas of town.
In a post-FOSTA world, Section 230 still protects websites from lawsuits over criminal sexual conduct by their users.
Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.
Former Backpage executives could now face trial again in 2023, after the government's first attempt resulted in a mistrial.
The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.
It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.
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Here's what's in the $1 billion reauthorization package.
The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act would look at the impact of FOSTA and the seizure of sites like Backpage and Rentboy.
In addition, 201 "sex buyers" were arrested.
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The pimping charges Krell helped bring against Backpage's CEO and founders were twice thrown out of court.
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Federal Judge Susan Brnovich was recently forced to declare a mistrial, which was a bad sign for the prosecution.
Judge said she has concerns that the government crossed the line several times.
The defendants are not on trial for child sex trafficking, yet prosecutor Reggie Jones wouldn't stop talking about it.
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Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
The only thing FOSTA has done is chill speech and make catching sex traffickers more difficult.
The penalty for employing 18- to 20-year-olds to work nude, topless, or "in a sexually oriented commercial activity" is now 2 to 20 years in prison.
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Portland police are calling it "human trafficking," but it was just an old-fashioned vice bust.
Spoiler: She was fine.
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Not all sexual misdeeds are sex trafficking.
The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
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Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
"Was this something heinous or was it something of a lesser nature, was it completely harmless?"
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Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
The case against the popular pornography site rests on misleading data and hidden agendas.
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